Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. The Man From Porlock 3
5. Part I
6. Ε.P.: The Man Who Cared Too Much 17
7. Wallace Stevens: Lunching With Hoon 58
8. Retrospecting the Retrospectives 99
9. The Blight of Modernism and Philip Larkin's Antidote 120
10. The Many-sidedness of Modernism 131
11. Part II
12. The Nonsense of Winters' Anatomy 147
13. Between Two Worlds or On the Move 177
14. Τ. S. Eliot and the Courtyard Revolution 205
15. How to End the Renaissance 224
16. Part III
17. Franz Kafka and the Economy of Chaos 249
18. Giacomo Leopardi Pioneer Among Exiles 262
19. As the Wind Sits: The Poetics of King Lear 272
20. Lucretius: The Imagination of the Literal Several 302